Locate Augusta State Medical Prison Offenders

Augusta State Medical Prison Overview

Augusta State Medical Prison, often shortened to ASMP, is operated by the Georgia Department of Corrections at 3001 Gordon Hwy in Grovetown. It is listed by GDC as a close-security state prison with a special medical mission. The facility was constructed in 1982 and opened in 1983. Its core population is adult male felons, but the medical mission also includes transient male and female offenders who are there for acute, specialized medical, or Level IV mental-health services.

ASMP should not be described as a Columbia County jail or a local arrest roster. A person may be housed there even if the criminal case began in another Georgia county because the prison serves the statewide corrections system. Likewise, a new Columbia County arrest belongs first in the county P2C jail inquiry, not the GDC prison locator, unless the person already has state custody status. Operator, custody type, and lookup path must stay separate.

The GDC facility page screenshot below is the source for ASMP's capacity, security level, mission, visitation hours, housing, medical services, programs, and directions.

The image is used here because it comes from the official GDC facility page for the state prison, not from the county jail roster.

Augusta State Prison Population

GDC lists Augusta State Medical Prison with capacity for 1,326 offenders. It is a much larger custody setting than Columbia County Detention Center, but the two numbers should not be compared as the same type of population. The county jail capacity describes local jail beds. ASMP capacity describes a state-prison medical facility serving offenders from across Georgia.

The facility's mission includes severe medical cases, sex-offender release-site functions, and hosting Augusta Transitional Center. Its housing includes living units, an open dorm, assisted-living beds, nursing units, a Special Management Unit, a Diagnostic Unit, a Fast Track double-bunk unit, and medical and mental-health buildings.

Lookup Augusta State Medical Offenders

Use Georgia.gov Find an Offender for Augusta State Medical Prison inmate lookup. Georgia.gov describes it as a free online search for adult offenders by name, ID or case number, age, and other identifying details. The state page also says county jail offenders should be searched through the county website, which confirms that the Columbia County P2C roster and GDC locator serve different custody systems.

1. Open Georgia.gov Find an Offender or the GDC offender search path linked from that service page.
2. Search by name, GDC ID, EF number, case number, age, or another supported identifier.
3. If a name search fails, try the first four letters of the last name and include all offenders, not only active records.
4. Confirm the facility field before using ASMP visitation, mail, or money rules.

If a Columbia County arrestee disappears from the county jail roster after sentencing, the Columbia County inmate population path shifts from county custody to GDC search. GDC FAQ says transfer dates are not published for security reasons.

Augusta State Medical Contact

Use the GDC facility contact for state-prison questions about ASMP. Do not call the Columbia County Detention Center for state prison visitation approval, GDC money, transfer timing, medical mission details, or offender locator corrections unless the person is physically in county jail custody.

Augusta State Medical Visits

ASMP visitation follows GDC state-prison rules, not county jail video visitation. The official GDC visitation page requires visitor approval before visits. Visitors submit a visitation request form to the facility where the offender is housed, include supporting documents such as photo ID or family records when needed, and notarize consent forms where required. GDC says forms are not accepted by email.

Dress and contraband rules are strict. GDC bars items such as tank tops, mesh or see-through clothing, sleeveless T-shirts, exposed chest, shoulders, or stomach, skirts more than two inches above the knee, stretch pants, and adult shorts. GDC also warns that common reasons for visitor arrests include cell phones, drugs, and tobacco.

Augusta State Mail and Money

ASMP mail and money should be handled through GDC state-prison instructions. Columbia County Detention Center digital mail, JailATM county deposits, and ICSolutions county video visits do not govern ASMP unless GDC points to a specific vendor or step. The safe starting point is the GDC friends and family information for visits, mail, and money, then the ASMP facility listing for local facility details.

VINELink can be useful for custody notifications when supported. For sentenced state offenders, it should be treated as a notification aid, not a substitute for the official GDC offender locator or facility instructions.

Augusta State Prison Intake

ASMP intake is not the street-arrest booking process used at Columbia County Detention Center. A state-prison placement follows sentencing, classification, medical needs, mental-health needs, or transfer within GDC. The sheriff's research confirms that Columbia County Transportation moves inmates to GDC, but GDC FAQ says transfer dates are not published due to security concerns. That means the public may see a gap between county jail release or transfer and a later state locator result.

GDC

Georgia Department of Corrections, the state prison system for sentenced offenders.

Close security

A state-prison security level. It is different from county jail housing status.

Transient medical patient

An offender temporarily housed for medical or mental-health services rather than local Columbia County charges.

Transfer date

A movement date that GDC does not publish because of security concerns.

For new Columbia County arrests, start with the county jail. For sentenced state custody, search GDC. For federal or immigration custody, use BOP or ICE locators because no official BOP prison or ICE detention facility was identified inside Columbia County.

About Augusta State Medical

ASMP has an unusually broad medical mission. GDC research lists hospital care, surgery-center services, multi-specialty clinic care, special mental-health treatment units, dialysis, dental, skilled nursing, hospice, inpatient care, pre-op and post-op care, sleep studies, tuberculosis services, acute and long-term care infirmaries, dementia care, a statewide male dialysis center, negative-pressure TB rooms, regional pharmacy, telemedicine, telepsychiatry, and chronic-care services.

GDC-published programs include GED, adult basic education, literacy and remedial education, Motivation for Change, Thinking for a Change, Moral Reconation Therapy, Matrix early recovery and relapse-prevention groups, activity therapy, sex-offender psycho-education, re-entry skill building, TOPSTEPP, worship services, Bible study, prayer group, recreation, food preparation, barbering, laundry services, custodial maintenance, and work details tied to state agencies and in-house operations.